sharking

Verb (1)

shark (third-person singular simple present sharks, present participle sharking, simple past and past participle sharked)

1. (intransitive, rare) To fish for sharks.
2. (UK, derogatory, mildly, transitive, university slang) To engage in sexual activity with a fresher.
3. (UK, derogatory, intransitive, mildly, university slang) To cruise for casual sex with a fresher at a bar or club.

Verb (2)

shark (third-person singular simple present sharks, present participle sharking, simple past and past participle sharked)

1. (obsolete) To steal or obtain through fraud.
   • Shakespeare and others, Sir Thomas More (c. 1593) act 2, sc. 4: "Other ruffians...Would shark on you."
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To play the petty thief; to practice fraud or trickery; to swindle.
   • Neither sharks for a cup or a reckoning.1628, John Earle, Microcosmography
3. (intransitive, obsolete) To live by shifts and stratagems.
   • Ah Captaine, lay not all the fault upon Officers you know you can ſhark though you be out of action, witneſſe Montague.1612–1613, Nathan Field, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Honest Mans Fortune”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647...

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